Nick - can you give a little more info on how all this stuff works? Is this like legos, where you can buy each piece separately and then put them together? Is the 130 page adventure going to be sold piecemeal? How exactly will it be non-linear?

Nick - can you give a little more info on how all this stuff works? Is this like legos, where you can buy each piece separately and then put them together? Is the 130 page adventure going to be sold piecemeal? How exactly will it be non-linear?

Great question!

The first chapter of every Dark Vista details the mini-campaigns main villains and their dread agendas (most of which involve awful things for the people living within hundreds of leagues of them) and also gives detailed info on the three major potential story arcs for each. The second chapter is called "Inciting Incidents and Chance Meetings" and basically supplies the GM with a bunch of tiny teaser encounters that draw the party into the three main arcs or one of several side treks. There is no linear plot. The PCs have a bunch of encounters in their face, and they can get involved with the adventures behind them in ANY way they want. The mega-modules build to a climax, but the PCs actions could completely avert it, or make it even worse for everyone. It's all about hard choices and conflicts you need more than just a sturdy sword or fiery spell to overcome. Though those will definitely help when you are staring down the bastard spawn of demon and kraken. ;-)

The Indulgences are all unique content...they aren't previews as much as they are supplemental articles to the Dark Vistas. You can plug em in and rock em out (in the case of adventures) or you can just run with them and use the content in your own games (they are not "wed" to the Vistas, only dovetail nicely into them).

I hope that makes some sense. The podcast is pretty informative about all this. I highly recommend giving it a listen. But shoot any more questions my way!

But maintaining the celebratory tone, I love the water and underwater based content!

That's a sure sale for me!

There's a TON of underwater action and action on the waves in Razor Coast. I personally LOVE this genre and wanted to do it up right. If you dig on undewater adventures, Greg's "Blood Waters" is pretty cool and the "Death Beneath the Waves" article Wolf wrote is really pure brilliance and a must have for GMs who dig on diving the life aquatic.

That helps. Will there be an absolutely complete bundle or subscription option or some other method to tag which articles fit the best with which adventure?

Sounds pretty cool though.

The Indulgences available now are all tied to Razor Coast. They will be for the next two months or so.

Around June you'll see some Indulgences that relate to Cold Black...ohmigods, TONS of the Werecabbages are hard at work right now on a project for me that has me absolutely drooling...their think-tank collective outline they just sent me blew my mind.

Do you see these settings as branching out into product lines? Or are we looking at one Dark Vista per setting, surrounded by a bunch of indulgences to back it up?

This is pretty spot on. There is another feature that will be available soon that I don't want to give too much away about.

But...

I am very excited about the Dark Vistas growing in a very organic way, and the storylines of each one being further explored and extended by Indulgences BASED ENTIRELY ON WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT TO SEE. Power to the people. Much more to come on this soon.

But yes! You don't need the Indulgences to run the Dark Vistas and vice versa, but they go really well together like peanut butter and world domination. :-)

BTW, I skimmed the Indulgences. Great art and clean layout overall, and "Art of the Duel" is S-W-E-E-T. Parry! Riposte! Lunge! Ah!

Yay!

Nick, I'm so stoked I can't sit still!

Yeah, I knew Craig could sword fight like a demon, but I had NO idea just how cool he could make it in D&D. He's a maestro with sword and pen if you ask me...though I'm not sure which one is mightier in the Scribe's poet-swordsmaster's hands truth be told.

Wow! This is certainly impressive! I will have to tell my friends who were interested in running Savage Tide about these products. As they have been wanting to run a Sea-faring campaign for a long time now!

But a little sad, too, I mean if the clones Nic had made of himself to work for Paizo's organized play, write Pathfinder and Gamemastery modules, run Iron DM, be a husband, freelancer, AND running his own imprint don't all go heyday bonkers and try to assassinate one another, that is.

But a little sad, too, I mean if the clones Nic had made of himself to work for Paizo's organized play, write Pathfinder and Gamemastery modules, run Iron DM, be a husband, freelancer, AND running his own imprint don't all go heyday bonkers and try to assassinate one another, that is.

Edit: Whoa Nathan! You are hardcore. No downloads for you. You mean BIZNESS. We can't have you with no downloads though, so here comes a free one atcha right stinking now...yeah, that's right...cause I'm awesome, and crazy. Here it comes. Sharks in yo inbox sucka!